I’ve seen a lot of posts about motivation, where to find it, what can it be. Your motivation should be your own well-being. The changes in my brain are absolutely nuts! My memory has sharpened, my concentration is full, the world has become colorful again. Frankly speaking this challenge is one of the best things […]
J Neurother. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2009 Nov 3. Published in final edited form as: J Neurother. 2008 Dec 1; 12(4): 205–225. doi: 10.1080/10874200802502185 Estate Sokhadze, Ph.D., Shraddha Singh, Ph.D., Christopher Stewart, M.D., Michael Hollifield, M.D., Ayman El-Baz, Ph.D., and Allan Tasman, M.D. Author information ► Copyright and License information ► See other articles […]
Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2015 Feb 14. pii: S0278-5846(15)00030-5. doi: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2015.02.004. Kim H1, Kim YK1, Gwak AR2, Lim JA2, Lee JY3, Jung HY3, Sohn BK3, Choi SW4, Kim DJ5, Choi JS6. Abstract OBJECTIVE:: Internet gaming disorder (IGD) shares core clinical features with other addictive disorders, such as gambling disorder and substance use disorder. Designation of […]
My experience with porn started in my early teens. I liked Playboy and Penthouse and enjoyed the thrill of seeing beautiful women nude. It’s called “eye candy” for a good reason. After I got married, I always had a couple of magazines in my nightstand and didn’t hide them from my wife. When the internet […]
Background I am 20 years old. I am male. I discovered masturbating at age 10, watching porn semi-frequently around this age too, and around 12 (when I got my own computer), began to watch heavier porn. I always had a fetish even before the pornography (I blame certain childhood experiences), and that fetish has evolved […]
Well, here we are. I never thought I would ever make it this far, but look at me now. I guess I sorta get what people mean when they talk about their superpowers on here. I more jokingly call them that, but I get it. I feel more energetic, more focused, and a lot happier, […]
I changed on so many levels during this NoFap journey! Changes were physical and emotional. To put it simply: I grew a pair of balls. I express my ideas at work, with friends and family. I play around with kids, kids are awesome! I learn so much from them. I actually gave my crush flowers […]
Neuropsychopharmacology. 2010 Jan; 35(1): 27–47. Published online 2009 Aug 12. doi: 10.1038/npp.2009.93 PMCID: PMC2879005 NIHMSID: NIHMS204857 Susan R Sesack1,2,* and Anthony A Grace1,2,* Author information ► Article notes ► Copyright and License information ► This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Go to: Abstract Many of the brain’s reward systems converge on […]
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Eur J Neurosci. 2008 Oct;28(8):1437-48. doi: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06422.x. Yin HH1, Ostlund SB, Balleine BW. Abstract Here we challenge the view that reward-guided learning is solely controlled by the mesoaccumbens pathway arising from dopaminergic neurons in the ventral tegmental area and projecting to the nucleus accumbens. This widely accepted view assumes that reward is a monolithic concept, […]
Neuron. 2003 Apr 24;38(2):339-46. McClure SM1, Berns GS, Montague PR. FULL STUDY PDF Abstract Functional MRI experiments in human subjects strongly suggest that the striatum participates in processing information about the predictability of rewarding stimuli. However, stimuli can be unpredictable in character (what stimulus arrives next), unpredictable in time (when the stimulus arrives), and unpredictable […]